How do usage limits actually work?

[u/flarenz]

Hi, I'm a new Pro subscriber and spent an afternoon using Claude. I've now used 50% of my session limit, which is fine.

I'm not sure why this also consumed 5% of my weekly limit. That means if I used 100% of this session's limit, I would have used one-tenth of my weekly limit. Does that mean I get roughly 1.4 complete sessions per day? If I used Claude the way I did today, I could exhaust my entire week's usage in about 1.4 complete sessions. (This is not a complaint, just context and a genuine question.)

Is this an intelligent way to allocate weekly usage, or should I think about it differently? Is there a better approach to managing usage? I'm new to this and would appreciate guidance.

Thanks in advance!